I'm using Runtime.getRuntime().exec in eclipse to run another java program from the current program.
I've used the following code.
InputStreamReader isr=new InputStreamReader(System.in);
BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(isr);
System.out.println("Enter the class name");
String s=br.readLine();
String str="XYZ";
String[] cmd = {"java","-cp", "C:/Users/..../workspace/Testing/bin",s,str};
Process pro=Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
I'm also passing a string "XYZ" to that program. That program just accepts the string and displays
Your string is XYZ
But by using the line
String[] cmd = {"java","-cp",
"C:/Users/..../workspace/Testing/bin",s,str};
i'm able to run the program but it is not accepting any arguments. It is neither displaying the output nor showing any errors.
Where am i going wrong?
Consider the program to be called is
import java.io.*;
public class Test
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
{
InputStreamReader isr=new InputStreamReader(System.in);
BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(isr);
System.out.println("Enter any string");
String s=br.readLine();
System.out.println("Your string is "+s);
}
}
This program should accept the string XYZ and prints Your string is XYZ
You need to read the output (and error) streams from the Process
using getInputStream()
and getErrorStream()
. You’ll need a separate thread for this if you want to wait for the process to complete.
String[] cmd = {"java", "-cp", "C:/Users/..../workspace/Testing/bin", s, str};
Process p = new ProcessBuilder(cmd).redirectErrorStream(true).start();
final InputStream pOut = p.getInputStream();
Thread outputDrainer = new Thread()
{
public void run()
{
try
{
int c;
do
{
c = pOut.read();
if (c >= 0)
System.out.print((char)c);
}
while (c >= 0);
}
catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
};
outputDrainer.start();
p.waitFor();
If you are using Java 7 and want all output of the process to be redirected to the console, the code is considerably simpler:
String[] cmd = {"java", "-cp", "C:/Users/..../workspace/Testing/bin", s, str};
Process p = new ProcessBuilder(cmd).redirectError(Redirect.INHERIT)
.redirectOutput(Redirect.INHERIT)
.start();
p.waitFor();
The redirectError()
and redirectOutput()
methods with Redirect.INHERIT
cause output to just be sent to the parent Java process.
You are executing javac
, the language compiler. I believe you want to invoke the java runtime on the class file with your main method. Replace javac
with java
, and specify your main class.
You are passing your data as an Argument but reading it from System.in
. If you read the data from the arguments it'll work. So do what @prunge said to capture what the subprocess print and use this as your test and everything will work just fine.
import java.io.*;
public class Test
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
{
if(args.length==0)
System.out.println("No String received");
else
System.out.println("Your string is " + args[0]);
}
}
Be sure that you check both the InputStream
and the ErrorStream
.
If you however want to pass the data via System.in
then you have to change your call code to:
InputStreamReader isr=new InputStreamReader(System.in);
BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(isr);
System.out.println("Enter the class name");
String s=br.readLine();
String str="XYZ";
String[] cmd = {"java","-cp", "C:/Users/..../workspace/Testing/bin",s};
Process pro=Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
PrintWriter output= new PrintWriter(pro.getOutputStream());
output.println(str);